Word: glossed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nocturne (RKO Radio), featuring George Raft as a deadpan detective, gets by in a superB way, but it will add no gloss to Producer Joan Harrison's shiny reputation (Phantom Lady, Uncle Harry...
...entire operation is painless enough, now & then funny. Bing sings a few songs; Hope clowns and rolls his eyes at Dotty; the late Robert Benchley breaks in from time to time to put a gloss on the frozen custard-pie humor...
...stray from Victor or Columbia, during the 14 months when Decca had made its peace with Petrillo and the big two had not. So far, Heifetz has played such banalities as White Christmas and Largo al Factotum for Decca. Now, in his first Decca album, Heifetz puts his cool gloss on bits & pieces from Ravel, Debussy, Godowsky and others. Performance: good...
...Local self-government will be encouraged. But no amount of well-meant gloss could conceal the remaining, fundamental area of disagreement...
...typical of a part of America--the part that is commercial and superficial, the part that is cafe society. By its very nature a compromise to public taste, it never reaches to the roots of American society, as do jazz and ragtime, since the general public always prefers to gloss over its roots...